It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

  • -- F. Scott Fitzgerald F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德

我突然想到,人类之间,无论是智力上还是种族上,都没有什么差别能像病号与健康号之间的差别那样深刻。

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

不公正、贫穷、奴役、无知——这些都可以通过改革或革命来解决。但是人不仅仅是靠与罪恶作斗争来生活的。他们生活在积极的目标下,个人的和集体的,各种各样的目标,很少是可以预测的,有时是不相容的。

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

乍一看,似乎没有什么比人类行为的外在形式更不重要的了,然而,没有什么比这更值得人们重视的了:除了生活在一个没有自己礼仪的社会里,人们对一切都习以为常了。